Pixar is not just known for excellent films. They are also known for excellent cameos. I remember watching Monster's Inc. and spotting toy versions of Jessie the Cowgirl and Nemo, even before Nemo hit theatres! A friend showed me a Youtube video where people went back and scoured the old Pixar films to find some evidence of Wall-E. It appears that they have! Watch the video below and you be the judge.
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Wall-E scraped together approximately $63 million in its opening weekend to take the number one spot at last weekend's box office. The $63 million made Wall-E the third highest opening weekend ever for a Pixar film just after The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. So far, Wall-E is garnering universal praise from the likes of Cinema Blend, Rolling Stone, an, hell, even the Wall Street Journal loved it. High praise indeed! With the five day long Independence Day weekend beginning today, expect Wall-E to take in an additional $60 million by Sunday evening.

At first glance, WALL-E is a complicated science fiction tale, set against a grand post-apocalyptic backdrop. But it's an illusion. More than any other recent film by the geniuses at Pixar it’s a kids’ movie, maybe their most simplistic and accessible yet. If WALL-E were a book, it’d be in the children’s department emblazoned with a title like “My First Science Fiction Story” and there would probably be a page for coloring somewhere before the back cover. They’ve taken a fairly ambitious sci fi concept and made it the perfect window for kids into a broader world of imagination and perhaps even activism. Does it have some appeal for adults? Sure. It’s still smart sci fi, just told in the most straightforward, easy to understand way possible. They’re happy to have you in the theater, but mostly they want your 8-year-old son or daughter. So maybe for adults there aren’t a lot of surprises, but that doesn’t mean you won’t revel in the Pixar-perfect execution of another story well told.

It happens in a far off future where mankind has turned Earth into a trash dump. I mean that literally. There’s no attempt at a complicated explanation for how our planet got screwed up. Basically we ruined the Earth by littering. It’s something kids can understand, why bother getting lost in a more complex problem like global warming? Man’s solution to the overabundance of garbage was to abandon the Earth, and live life roaming the stars inside spacefaring pleasure cruisers. Now, 700 years since our departure from Terra, the human race has morphed into a bunch of overweight layabouts. Basically we’re all starfaring, super-fat babies.
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Disney's WALL-E is going retro with some really incredible, 50s style poster artwork created specially for the film. The four incredibly cool posters below are available for sale over on Acme Direct... where they don't come cheap. But what you're getting here isn't some cheap promotional one sheet, but real, beautiful, geektastic artwork.

Check out all four posters after the jump:

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If you honestly thought a site called Giant Freakin Robots would discriminate against a little robot, you are dead wrong mister. We here at GFR embrace all freakin robots regardless of stature (although giant is usually cooler). With Wall-E, you have one of the most dynamic robots to hit the screen. He's a little small but he has personality. Personality goes along way.

GFR has several Wall-E clips to help you get ready for Friday's release. Don't worry though. You will see Wall-E put the bra on his head again. I know you were probably worried about missing it. Besides the 47,000th viewing of the bra, most of the footage is new or at least an extended clip of something we've seen briefly before.While you wait for Wall-E to hit theatres on June 27th, watch these clips, courtesy of our sister site Cinema Blend!
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This story title doesn't even make sense does it? How can some craptacular movie like Speed Racer even begin to affect the amount of Wall-E Toys? At last week's Licensing International Expo, Andy Mooney, chairman of Disney Consumer Products, discussed how stores had to make a choice on what to stock and they mostly gambled on Speed Racer. I sometimes question the intelligence of idiot execs at Wal-Mart, Target, and the like. Who in their damn right mind would have thought Speed Racer would be a success? It looked like blue screen shit from the get go.  These short sighted middle managers actually made the decision based on another Disney-Pixar film, Cars. While mediocre compared to other Pixar films, Cars has raked in the merchandising dough to a ridiculous amount. The merchandising bonanza is also the sole reason Cars 2 is in production before we get a sequel to The Incredibles if we ever do! more...

The past few days have been huge for science fiction news, and I'm not just talking about that played out superhero stuff that everyone spends all of their time covering. Is that even sci fi anymore? It's almost it's own thing. But I'm a sucker for guys in capes, so we'll cover it... just not to the exclusion of all else.

Here's a quick update on what's big in science fiction this week:

- Bryan Singer confirmed that a sequel to Superman Returns is happening, and that he's already at work on it.

- X-Files 2 finished filming this week, and the production team rumbled about their disinterested in courting existing fans, and proclaimed their love of people who don't care about their franchise. More on how much Chris Carter hates you here.
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